Metaverse

Just a year after launching, blockchain start-up RTFKT was acquired by Nike to help bring the company into the virtual sneaker metaverse.

Check out the best (and the worst) memes that came out of the latest crypto market crash.

The new gold rush — digital land on the metaverse. Find out what's happening as land sales peaked in the top metaverses: Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, Cryptovoxels and Decentraland.

The crypto markets are keeping a close eye on U.S. inflation data due out today — plus, yet another twist in the ongoing drama surrounding India's mooted ban.

New research also reveals which fan tokens are the most popular — and identifies two tokens that have witnessed even bigger gains than Bitcoin over the past year.

Plus, a report reveals how to make a profit on NFTs, OpenSea's users are angry at its plans to launch on the stock market, and why metaverse tokens were hardest hit by the weekend's crash.

With the metaverse still a fairly abstract concept that's yet to achieve mainstream adoption, it seems the current craze is based on hope of what these virtual worlds may one day be worth.

IntoTheBlock takes a look at how the MANA and GALA tokens performed ever since metaverse became the newest, hottest trend.

CoinMarketCap takes another deep dive into one of the newest metaverse-oriented launchpads.

We've got all of this week's crypto headlines — and some tasty details on how you can get free Bitcoin by ordering takeout.

Adidas is getting into the metaverse, a Banksy painting is being split into 10,000 NFTs, Bitcoin is being rolled out to hundreds of millions of Brazilians, and crypto donations have surged.

In a video posted on Twitter, three characters are seen flying into Earth — including a Bored Ape — each of them kitted out in Adidas gear.

The project's co-founder Jeff Zirlin warned that the crypto sector is going to face "more powerful enemies" as digital assets and the blockchain go mainstream.

Ether has suffered a pullback after being on the brink of securing new all-time highs. But as cryptocurrencies cool, virtual plots of land in the metaverse are selling like hotcakes.

DappRadar figures show The Sandbox has become the second most-traded NFT collection as Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks lose momentum and fall down the rankings.

Bitcoin has had a month to forget, but Ether is tantalizingly close to hitting record highs. Plus, another setback for Facebook — now known as meta — as its top crypto executive steps down.

Meta was known as Facebook back then, while the Diem digital currency had initially been referred to as Libra. And as for the Novi digital wallet, that had previously been called Calibra.

Deloitte predicts five million fans will have embraced crypto collectibles by the end of 2022 — with transaction volumes doubling year on year to $2 billion.